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 - icat kitten: Add an option :option:`kitty +kitten icat --no-trailing-newline` to leave the cursor to the right of the image (:iss:`7574`)
 
+- Speed up ``kitty --version`` and ``kitty --single-instance`` (for all subsequent instances). They are now the fastest of all terminal emulators with similar functionality.
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 0.35.2 [2024-06-22]
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